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Leonardo da Vinci on Anniversary

1452–1519 Italy

← All quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

13 quotes

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Love, Fear, and Esteem, — Write these on three stones.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonardo da Vinci (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.